Simon Reynolds's Notes on the noughties: Beard here now

A series of oblique angles on the past musical decade, beginning with how an entire generation of hipsters wore their musical preferences on their facesStanding on a subway platform waiting for the L train, I saw a group of young men with that slightly scruffy, indeterminately hip look that screams "Williamsburg". I was struck by the fact that every one of them had a beard. Later that same week, walking down a single block in the East Village, I passed something like a dozen men, all in the 18 t...

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